Personhood shouldn't be the only requirement to count towards HOV lane usage. For example, there's no disagreement in https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr

Personhood shouldn't be the only requirement to count towards HOV lane usage. For example, there's no disagreement in https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/04/end-of-the-road-jakartas-passengers-for-hire-targeted-by-carpooling-crackdown https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/04/end-of-the-roa... that there's enough people in the car, but that behavior is absolutely abusing the HOV lane.